Laura Borrowdale is a writer and educator from Ōtautahi, Christchurch. Her second collection of stories, Dead Ends, was published in 2025 with Tender Press. She is currently working on a novel.
The writer William Trevor said the short story form is defined by “the art of the glimpse.” It should be an explosion of truth. Its strength lies in what it leaves out just as much as what it puts in, if not more.
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